Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it

Enlarge / Former US President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 11, 2024 in New York City. (credit: Getty Images | Michael M. Santiago)

Elon Musk’s X is blocking links to the JD Vance “dossier” containing the Trump campaign’s research on the vice presidential nominee. X also suspended Ken Klippenstein, the journalist who published the dossier that apparently comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

“Ken Klippenstein was temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. Vance’s physical addresses and the majority of his Social Security number,” X’s safety account wrote yesterday. Klippenstein’s account was still suspended as of this writing.

X is blocking attempts to post links to the Klippenstein article in which he explained why he published the leaked dossier. An error message says, “We can’t complete this request because the link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful.”